In a previous paper (Peterson, Bertsimas, and Odoni 1992), we studied the phenomenon of transient congestion in landings at a hub airport and developed a recursive approach for computing moments of queue lengths and waiting ...

Larson [1] proposed a method to statistically infer the expected transient queue length during a busy period in 0(n 5 ) solely from the n starting and stopping times of each customer's service during the busy period and ...

The transactional data of a queueing system are the recorded times of service commencement and service completion for each customer served. With increasing use of computers to aid or even perform service one often has ...

Throughout the United States it is common practice for automobile insurance premiums for a particular policy to vary depending upon the driver class and geographic location of the policyholder as well as the type and number ...

As the computer, communication, and entertainment industries begin to integrate phone, cable, and video services and to invest in new technologies such as fiber optic cables, interruptions in service can cause considerable ...

In satellite communications networks, distinctive facilities called homing stations perform special transmission functions. Local demand nodes clustered around each homing station communicate with each other via a local ...

The problem of determining when to repair and when to replace failing equipment is a concern of management of productive resources. Inefficient management due to the use of non-optimal repair-replacement policies can have ...

Survivability is becoming an increasingly important criterion in network design. This paper studies formulations, heuristic worst-case performance, and linear programming relaxations for two classes of survivable network ...